Rogue Driver Crashes as Panetta Lands at Base

CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan—U.S. officials are trying to determine whether an Afghan man who crashed a stolen pickup truck near a runway here was trying to attack Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.

In a highly unusual breach of security, the Afghan man, apparently a contractor employed at the British-run Camp Bastion base in Helmand province, crashed the truck into a ditch and emerged on fire near the base's runway around the time that Mr....